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Facts to Sweep Under the Carpet

It was a disappointing end to our run of good form – with Villa seemingly back to looking like a team a fair way off promotion.

Reading are a decent team but didn’t have to work too hard for their win on Saturday, and let’s not forget they lost 7-1 the weekend before.

Craven Cottage was never somewhere that Villa enjoyed visiting in the Premier League – we have won just one of our last 10 league visits there, drawing five times, and losing four of the other occasions. In addition to this, we’ve failed to score in the last three meetings.

We haven’t done the double over many teams in the Championship this season, and the history books tell us a Fulham double will be unlikely. Fulham haven’t lost both league games in a season against Villa since the 2009-10 season…

Monday Football is all well and good, but we haven’t won an away league game on a Monday since 2009!

These are hardly good omens when you consider our fortune when the TV cameras are about, and Fulham’s impressive form of late…

“They’ve spent a lot of money and have got plenty of talent and ability…but if we turn up then not many teams can live with us” – Fulham BOSS

Why Villa Have Got This Game in the Bag

Our away form has been a thorn in our side all season, but with the recent improvement in performances, there was at least an upturn in results on the road.

Televised fixtures such as defeats at Forest and Brentford might still linger in the memory, but since then we’ve won two out of five. Hardly groundbreaking, but a hint that we could take something from the game.

If we didn’t have the goals of Kodjia (and perhaps Chester!) who knows where we’d be. There might be a chance for the goalscoring to be shared on Monday though, as Lansbury has scored a brace in each of his last two Championship away games at Fulham…

While our chances might not look great on paper, it certainly looks like there could be goals.

Bizarrely, none of Fulham’s last 123 league matches at Craven Cottage have ended 0-0. It gets weirder.

The last time a goalless draw occurred was in the 2011-12 season – against Alex McLeish’s Villa!

If something positive is to come from the Reading game, at least we might see a bit of rotation in the squad.

With the pressure on 7th placed Fulham to move into the play-offs, it could be a cagey game, but there’s no reason why we can’t take all three points.

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